Tuesday, December 6, 2022

IN THE NEWS: THE BRAINS OF TEENAGERS LOOK DISTURBINGLY DIFFERENT AFTER LOCKDOWN

The Brains of Teenagers Look Disturbingly Different After Lockdown--HEALTH06

December 2022 DAVID NIELD--The stress of living through pandemic lockdowns has accelerated aging in the brains of teenagers. The effects are similar to those previously observed as a result of violence, neglect, and family dysfunction.

Even if you've left adolescence far behind, you might remember that it can be a tumultuous time in terms of thoughts and feelings, and there's a lot of reorganizing that goes on in the brain – even without a global pandemic and the associated lockdowns.  A recent study by researchers from Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, concluded the pandemic had 'sped up' some of this reorganizing, thinning of the cortex and increasing the size of the hippocampus and the amygdala sections of the brain.  READ MORE AT The Brains of Teenagers Look Disturbingly Different After Lockdown : ScienceAlert

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